Stable Gallery, New York, Rauschenberg: Paintings and Sculpture, September 15–October 3, 1953. 

Jewish Museum, New York, Robert Rauschenberg, March 31–May 12, 1963. no. 4

Larry Gagosian Gallery, New York, Rauschenberg: The White and Black Paintings 1949–1952, April 18–May 31, 1986. 

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Robert Rauschenberg: The Early 1950s, June 15–August 11, 1991. Organized by Menil Collection, Houston. Traveled to Menil Collection, Houston, September 27, 1991–January 5, 1992; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, February 8–April 19, 1992; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, May 14–August 16, 1992; Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York, October 24, 1992–January 24, 1993. (shown in New York only)

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Robert Rauschenberg: A Retrospective, September 19, 1997–January 7, 1998 (also Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York, September 19, 1997–January 4, 1998, and Ace Gallery, New York, September 19–November 9, 1997). Traveled to Menil Collection, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, February 13–May 17, 1998; Museum Ludwig, Cologne (as Robert Rauschenberg: Retrospektive), June 27–October 11, 1998; Museo Guggenheim Bilbao (as Robert Rauschenberg: Retrospectiva), November 21, 1998–March 7, 1999. no. 51 (shown in New York only)

Tate Modern, London, Robert Rauschenberg, December 1, 2016–April 2, 2017. Organized with Museum of Modern Art, New York. Traveled to Museum of Modern Art, New York (as Robert Rauschenberg: Among Friends), May 21–September 17, 2017; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (as Robert Rauschenberg: Erasing the Rules), November 18, 2017–March 25, 2018. (shown in New York only)

Solomon, Alan R. Robert Rauschenberg. New York: Jewish Museum, 1963. Exhibition catalogue. no. 4, n.p. (ill.)

Johnston, Jill. “Reviews and Previews: Robert Rauschenberg.” Artnews 62, no. 3 (May 1963). p. 11

Tomkins, Calvin. “Profiles: Moving Out.” New Yorker 40, no. 2 (February 29, 1964). p. 39

Forge, Andrew. Rauschenberg. New York: Harry N. Abrams, [1969]. p. 173 (ill.)

Feldman, Morton. “Give My Regards to Eighth Street.” Art in America 59, no. 2 (March–April 1971). p. 96

Forge, Andrew. Rauschenberg. New York: Harry N. Abrams, [1972]. n.p. (pl. 3)

Feldman, Morton. “Crippled Symmetry.” RES:Anthropology and Aesthetics, no. 2 (Autumn 1981). pp. 100 (ill.), 101

Rauschenberg: The White and Black Paintings 1949–1952. New York: Larry Gagosian Gallery, 1986. Exhibition catalogue. n.p.

Feinstein, Roni. “The Early Work of Robert Rauschenberg: The White Paintings, the Black Paintings, and the Elemental Sculptures.” Arts Magazine (New York) 61, no. 1 (September 1986). pp. 29 (ill. [install]), 32 (ill.), 35

Feinstein, Roni. “Random Order: The First Fifteen Years of Robert Rauschenberg’s Art, 1949–1964.” PhD diss., New York University, 1990. ProQuest (303859753). p. 106, n.p. (figs. 24, 29 [install])

Hopps, Walter. Robert Rauschenberg: The Early 1950s. Houston: Menil Collection; Houston Fine Art Press, 1991. Exhibition catalogue. pp. 63, 68, 69 (fig. 31), 100, 153–54, 179 (pl. 106), 189 (pl. 116 [install]), as Untitled [black painting with grid forms]

Hopps, Walter, and Susan Davidson. Robert Rauschenberg: A Retrospective. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1997. Exhibition catalogue. no. 51, pp. 33, 44, 81 (pl. 51), as Untitled [black painting with grid forms]

Joseph, Branden W., ed. Robert Rauschenberg. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2002. p. 74 (ill.), as Untitled [black painting with grid forms]

Rosenthal, Stephanie. Black Paintings. Translated by Büro Sieveking. Munich: Haus der Kunst; Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2006. Exhibition catalogue. no. 18, p. 29 (pl. 18), as Untitled (black painting with grid forms) (not exhibited)

Villars, Chris, ed. Morton Feldman Says: Selected Interviews and Lectures 1964–1987. London: Hyphen, 2006. pp. 52, 227

Dickerman, Leah, and Achim Borchardt-Hume. Robert Rauschenberg. New York: Museum of Modern Art; London: Tate Publishing, 2016. Exhibition catalogue. pp. 57 (pl. 20), 112 (ill. [install]), as Untitled (Black Painting)